Proceedings of the third <em>Oireachtas</em> festival held in 1899
<em>Oireachtas na Gaeilge</em>, Irish cultural and literary festival
<p>An extract (page 9) from the proceedings of the third <em>Oireachtas</em> festival in Dublin in 1899. The <em>Oireachtas</em> was established by the Gaelic League in the Revival period and continues to this day to be a celebration of Irish language, literature, song and dance.</p>
<p>The style of the text is illustrative of the style parodied in lines 897-938 of the Cylcops episode in <em>Ulysses</em>.</p>
S.J. Barrett (editor)
Original: The Gaelic League
Digital: https://archive.org/stream/1899imtheachtapr00gaeluoft#page/8/mode/2up
1899
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Letter from Archbishop Croke to Michael Cusack on the GAA
Gaelic Athletics Association
<p>This letter, published in <em>The Freeman's Journal </em>on the 24th December 1884 and in <em>The Nation</em> on the 27th December 1884, details Archbishop T.W. Croke's support for the recently established Gaelic Athletics Association. The Archbishop sent the letter to the founder of the GAA, Michael Cusack, who then forwarded it to the newspaper for publication.</p>
Dr. T.W. Croke, Archbishop of Cashel
<em>The National</em>, 27 December 1884
Education Department, GAA Museum, Croke Park: http://www.crokepark.ie/getmedia/e35fa6c0-370d-4d68-831c-85df0f874a0d/Web1.pdf
1884
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Gods and Fighting Men
Irish legend
<p>An extract from Lady Augusta Gregory's <em>Gods and Fighting Men</em>, an English translation of select Irish legends. The extract provides a detailed description of the foodstuffs Finn and his band of Fenian warriors discovered at the White Hill in Munster.<em><br /></em></p>
<p>The extract is from the exposition of Chapter II of Book III and begins halfway down page 207. It is illustrative of the style parodied in Cyclops, 12:68-85.</p>
Lady August Gregory (translator)
Gaelic oral tradition: Fenian cycle
Original: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W., London
Digital: https://archive.org/stream/godsfightingmens00greguoft#page/206/mode/2up
Translation published 1904
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